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Management School Faculty

Meet our academic staff from the Lancaster University Management School (LUMS).

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Dr Renfred Wong

Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance // Head of Department LUMS Leipzig

  • Research focus: CSR reporting, corporate accountability, corporate strategy
  • Top publication outlet: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (ABS: 3)
  • Top conference presentation: European Accounting Association
  • Most important research award: Excellent paper award, Academy of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Knowledge: International Symposium on Innovative Management, Information & Production
  • Prior position in higher education: Associate Professor, Hong Kong Metropolitan University; Associate Professor, Coventry University
  • Postgraduate education: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Bath

Dr Benjamin Hammer

Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Accounting and Finance

  • Research focus: Private equity, venture capital
  • Top publication outlet: Journal of Corporate Finance (ABS AJG: 4)
  • Top conference presentation: European Finance Association
  • Most important grant / industry engagement: CEIBS-Cathay Cross-Border Private Equity Research Fund
  • Most important research award: L. Lang Corporate Finance Best Paper Award, European Financial Management Association
  • Editorial positions: Editor in Chief, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity
  • Prior position: Postdoctoral Researcher in Finance and Executive Director of the Center for Corporate Transactions & Private Equity, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
  • Postgraduate education: Habilitation and PhD, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Career highlight: Management Development Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Dr Anton Siebert

Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Marketing

  • Research focus: [Customer journey, digital marketing]
  • Top publication outlet: [Journal of Marketing]
  • Top conference presentation: [American Marketing Association]
  • Most important grant / industry engagement: [TBD]
  • Most important research award: [Shelby D. Hunt/Harold H. Maynard Award, American Marketing Association Foundation]
  • Editorial position: [TBD]
  • Prior position in higher education: [Lecturer, Henley Business School, University of Reading]
  • Postgraduate education: [PhD, Newcastle University]

Career highlight: [Magazine article on customer journeys in Harvard Business Review]

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Dr Neha Jindal

Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics

Dr Jan Schoenfelder

Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Management Science

  • Research focus: Operations Research, Service Management, Healthcare
  • Top publication outlet: European Journal of Operational Research
  • Top conference presentation: INFORMS, EURO
  • Most important grant / industry engagement: EGEPAN-UNIMED, PREPARED, both part of the Network of University Medicine
  • Most important research award: Outstanding Innovation in Service Systems Engineering Award, Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers
  • Editorial position: –
  • Prior position in higher education: Postdoctoral Researcher, Universität Augsburg
  • Postgraduate education: PhD, Indiana University

Dr Jian Wang

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Strategy and Entrepreneurship

  • Research focus: Innovation, Organization, Science and Technology Policy
  • Top publication outlet: Research Policy
  • Top conference presentation: –
  • Most important grant / industry engagement: European Patent Office, German Research Foundation (DFG), Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
  • Most important research award: Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis, Clarivate
  • Editorial position: Advisory Editor, Research Policy; Associate editor, Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics; Editorial board member, Research Evaluation
  • Prior position in higher education: Assistant Professor, Leiden University; Postdoc, KU Leuven; Fellow, Harvard University
  • Postgraduate education: PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr Jose M. Alcaraz

Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Management

  • Research focus: Management and Sustainability, Gender & Organizations, Teaching Innovations
  • Top publication outlet: The Academy of Management Learning & Education
  • Top conference presentation: Academy of Management
  • Most important grant / industry engagement: INICIA Industry Endowed Chair of Sustainability
  • Most important research award: Paper award, Academy of Management 2023, Organization & Environment Division
  • Prior position in higher education: Associate Professor, Catholic University of Lyon; ESDES Business School
  • Postgraduate education: PhD, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Career highlight: United Nations PRME Co-coordinator of SIP Working Group

Dr Anirban Ash

Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Business Studies

Assistant Professor in Business Studies, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Accounting & Finance, Research Methods

Research focus: Trust in business relationships, negotiation

  • Top publication outlet:
  • Top conference presentation: Industrial Marketing and Purchase (IMP) Conference
  • Most important grant / industry engagement: Friede Springer Doctoral Grant 2014, 2015, 2016
  • Most important research award:
  • Prior Reviewer position: Journal of Business Research
  • Prior position in higher education: Research Associate, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
  • Postgraduate education: PhD (Dr.rer.oec.), MBA, MSc, FHEA

Career highlight: Selling my start-up to a private investor

Dr Najam Anjum

Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Management

Colin Kay

Programme Lead Business, Foundation and Pre-Master's

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